LOUDLABS took a vacation to Flippin, Arkansas. Yes, that really the name of the place. LOUDLABS had some fun flippin' out and getting up street art in Flippin, everywhere from fence posts to the city jail. Click the link to check out the pics

A closer look at the stickers making up the gigantic combo on the window of the front of Sportie LA. Slaps from Enes FTS, Profes FTS, Bleek, 455er, Boe, Blink, Bran One TRB, News, Shie 47, Asmar, Klutz, JTS and more.

A cardboard sign hung up above a dumpster on Melrose saying 'STOP Dumping Dog shit around here. Dogs are not the problem. You are the problem.'

You know, its kind of true that a problem dog generally has a problem owner. But right here, the owner of this Melrose dumpster is just being problematic the way they don't want dog shit dumped in a dumpster. Seriously. Take the lock off your garbage, and let responsible dog owners pick up after themselves. Quit causing the problem.

When the rights of Americans begin to get abused by the government itself, we are in grave danger of becoming the police-driven totalitarian state. And when that happens, the punishments for street art get ramped up to ridiculous levels.

The judge claims that his action to deny freedom of speech is acceptable since 'The State's Vandalism Statute does not mention First Amendment rights.' Hmmm.

If there is a silver lining, it might be that even if convicted, Olson will set a new precedent for the Vandalism Statue in California. Since a judge can not throw out a fundamental Amendment to the Constitution, it is likely that Olson's conviction would get overturned. And that, would hopefully, set a new precedent where Freedom of Speech is assured, even in cases of vandalism.

This is why the Amendments were added to the Constitution, to prevent against abuses of power exactly like these. But if we don't be careful, and if Americans don't demand accountability from our leaders, we might soon find ourselves pitted against a government without these fundamental protections.

Stay up, Jeff Olson. Keep your head up, and just stay up!~

***The above pic is of some political chalk drawing in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement from Toolz***

M&F has been using the term 'drive-by' to describe when we have combined a lot of posts into one massive feature. This is another such sampling from all over Los Angeles. Click the jump for 20+ more pics of art around LA.

^Kicking things off with an Este bomb riding on Melrose with Icy & Sot and JR.